Lamentations 3:18
And I said, Lost is my strength, my expectation also from the Lord.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD:
In Context
17And my soul hath given up all thoughts of peace: I forget happiness.
19Remembering my affliction and [the cause of] my complaint, wormwood and poison.
Cross References
Job 6:11What is my strength, that I should wait? and what my end, that I should yet longer retain my patience?
Psalms 31:22(31:23) And yet had I said in my despondency, I am cut off from before thy eyes: nevertheless thou didst hear the voice of my supplications when I cried loudly unto thee.
Ezekiel 37:11Then said he unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Dried are our bones, and lost is our hope; we are quite cut off.
Matthew Henry on Lamentations 3:2-21
The Prophet's Personal Affliction. ( b. c. 588.) 1 I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath. 2 He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light. 3 Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day. 4 My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones. 5 He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail. 6 He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old. 7 He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath… Read the whole commentary →